For most platforms they run on either a Linux variant or Windows CE. And of that it’s a 70-30 split. So go figure. Your ATM is 60-40. > On Mar 18, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: > > Actually, I have been "living under a rock." More accurately, piles of them, mostly all alone. So how would I know Linux has become "mainstream??" How many Linux programmers would you guess there are in Mora, MN?? After I bust a gut using winter firewood, I bust a gut building concrete/rock/and steel summer foundations. > > Recently, I started learning pthreads, and I blame that all on you, smarty pants. Until my gut heals and I can work outside and bust it again. > > Iznogoud wrote: >>> I ran across the Wikileaks link describing modern "wiretapping" methods. >>> >>> https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/index.html >>> >>> Maybe I read it all wrong, and I only read this page, but it looks like >>> Linux is the tool used to hack into our digital communications grid. >>> >> Seen this. It is no surprise, as there is much more documentation (but also >> versatility) that comes with Linux. I'd the same if I were them. And with >> Wine they can probably mix-and-match for getting to penetrate other OSs. >> >> One comment on your title. I think the government is doing less "abuse" in the >> sense that you put it compared to what Wall Street does with Linux. >> >> >>> All it seems to imply to dumb old me is this once obscure geek toy OS >>> has come a long way to respectable status. >>> >> I should say something that starts with "unless you've been living under a rock >> you'd want know that" and ends with Linux has been mainstream for years. It >> runs our global infrastructure, and there was a youtube video of a TEDx talk >> on that (given by Linus' boss in Portland some years ago). >> >> >>> Given the accuse first ask questions later nature of our modern >>> political system, we Linux fans and the TCLUG list might already be >>> under suspicion. Franz Kafka and James Bond couldn't match the current >>> craziness. >>> >> Two things: >> >> (a) The "accuse first" is mostly a self-serving _economic_model_ in my humble >> opinion, far from an efficient way of doing things (in a sense that an >> economist would put it). It creates jobs to have a mess of things, and if >> Y2K was not a prime example of this, the book "Perpetual War for Perpetual >> Peace" puts it well for a different aspect of our world. The point is made >> here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_war >> >> (b) Wasn't it said that NSA has a 3-day live buffer of the internet traffic? >> Storing text, like emails, is really cheap in comparison. This crap we talk >> about here will live forevah! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list